They Could Hear Them Tearing The Calf Apart

Deep along the Brazos River, something attacked a calf in the darkness. The people who witnessed the event couldn't see exactly what was happening—but they could hear it. They heard the struggle. They heard multiple animals involved. And, most disturbingly, they described hearing bones being broken and the calf seemingly being pulled apart with astonishing speed. In this episode of Dark Outdoors®, Chester Moore examines this chilling eyewitness account from the Brazos River country and asks what kind of predators—and what kind of circumstances—could produce an attack like the one described. The episode also ventures deeper into the strange world of predator-prey relationships, exploring unusual observations from the outdoors that don't always fit neatly into what we expect from coyotes, wild canines and other predators. Nature isn't a horror movie. Predators kill because that's how they survive. But every once in a while, someone witnesses—or simply hears—something in the darkness that reminds us just how wild the outdoors really is. And sometimes hearing it is worse than seeing it.